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The Iron Age a Ditch and Pottery at Pagans' Hill, Chew Stoke THE IRON AGE A DITCH AND POTTERY AT PAGANS' HILL 97 The Iron Age A Ditch and Pottery at Pagans' Hill, Chew Stoke By A. M. APSIMON, P. A. RAnTZ, and L. G. HARRIS (O.S. 6 in. to I mile, Somerset 12 S.W. N.G.R. ST 557626) INTRODUCTION Thc Iron Age ditch at Pagans' Hill (I milc north of Chew Stokc Church) was discovered during the excavation of the Roman templc scttlement in 1951-2 (Rahtz, 1951). It was not excavated outside the Roman buildings, nor werc any associated structures found.· Several hundred shcrds were found in thc ditch, which may be assigned to an early phase of Iron Agc A. We would like to thank Petcr Ewcnce for drawing the pottery. The Ditch lies under toc long rooms on the north side of the outer cntrance. It is crossed by three Roman wall-trenchcs, which are cut to its full depth to ensure stabilitY; although it continued to the east, it could not be traced on the temple side of these buildings. The ditch has sloping sides and a flat base (see Fig. 22B) and is cut at right angles to thc contours (see Fig. 22A) on a slightly curving course. It is 7-8 ft. wide at the level of the surrounding natural marl, and varies in depth from 1 ft. to 5 ft. below the turf; it is shallow at thc west end, and deepens progressively towards the east. Stratiji£ation.-At the shallow west end, the prehistoric filling was homogeneous, a black-brown greasy soil with charcoal and some small stones. Farther to the south the lower 6 in. were more black and greasy and contained much charcoal (layer 5 in Fig. 22B); this merged into a brown black soil with less charcoal (layer 4 in Fig. 22B). In the eastern part of thc ditch there were many pieces of thc local Triassic limestone up to 9 in. across in both layers on the south side of the ditch. Above the dark filling was rammed clay, laid in Roman times to make up the ground. No trace of a buried soil or occupation level could be traced under the Roman levels on either side of the ditch, where the clay make-up merged almost imper­ ceptibly into the natural marl. Finds.-Several hundred sherds were recovered from all parts of the dark filling, with a concentration at the junction of layers 4 and 5. The pottery types were the same throughout the filling, and the sherds are treated as a homogeneous group, which is described and illustrated below. The THE IRON AGE A DITCH AND POlTERY AT PAGANS' HILL 354 ..r PAGANS . ..m HILL .. .. : ,no , ,34' .,,1~4 .. /"6 -,,, , \ r.­ Fig. 22A. Pagans Hill- Section across Iron Age ditch North South SCALE? r"1 1 ~ 0 f r f f FEET I. Turf and lopsOlI 2. Dark bt'own slony soil (Roman level) 3.Rammed red clall (Roman make.up) 4. Brown'black sticky 501/ r 5. Black soil and charcoal 6 Trios MorI (natural) r. A·R. .n. Fig. 22B. only other finds were a few undistinguished flint flakes, part of a polished bone tool, and some unidentifiable scraps of animal bone. INTERPRETATION The purpose of the ditch must remain uncertain on the present evidence, but it was perhaps a sunken way leading up through the brow of the hill THE IRON AGE A DITCH AND POTTERY AT PAGANS' HILL 99 to a site as yet unlocated. Traces of prehistoric occupation were found below the temple (Rahtz, 19SI, pp. 121-2), but they cannot safely be related to this ditch; although the scraps of pottery found in the pre-temple soil were similar in fabric to those from the ditch, they are too small and featureless to be positively identified as Iron Age A. Many flints were found in the soil under the temple, but these are almost absent in the ditch. No traces of prehistoric occupation have been found elsewhere on the hill in the areas dug. No primary silt was observed in the ditch, and it seems likely that the pottery and charcoal in the filling began to accumulate soon after it was dug. The stones in the filling in the east part of the ditch may have been derived from some kind of retaining wall on the south side. The Roman levelling material may have been derived from their own excavations for wall-trenches, etc., or possibly partly from the remains of prehistoric upcast. THE IRON AGE POTTERY (Fig. 23. Nos. I-IS; Fig. 24. Nos. 16-36) The Iron Age pottery from this site is all of" A .. type and appears to form a single homogeneous group. The amount of material is not enough to make any form of statistical analysis profitable. but the pottery is described in some detail as there seems little hope of obtaining more in the immediate future. The examination shows that this is probably the earliest group of Iron Age pottery yet found in Somerset. The furrowed, carinated bowls in hrematite ware represented by the fragments figured (1-3) seem to be of the same type as those from early Iron Age "A" sites in Wiltshire such as All Cannings Cross. Conversely the cordoned bowls of hrematite ware with decoration incised after baking. that appear on Wiltshire sites at a slightly later date, are absent from the Pagans' Hill group. Another feature linking the Pagans' Hill pottery to early Wiltshire sites (e.g. Boscomhe Down West) is the series of bowls in polished grey or black ware (10-17). On these, decoration is confined to horizontal furrowing or varied chevron and simple linear patterns on the shoulder. all executed in incised or impressed linear technique prior to firing. Also ~nsidered early is the relative profusion of finger-tip decora­ tion on the jars and cooking pots. The collection does not include any rims so treated. nor are there any applied bands with this kind of plastic ornament, or indeed any trace of this. The perforated shoulder lugs (18) are common in Wcssex Iron Age A groups, including All Cannings Cross. Their combination with finger-tip decoration suggests the possibility of a Late Bronze Age contribution. This combination has been found on a supposedly Late Bronze Age cinerary urn from Dorset; and simple bi-conical urns with finger-tip decoration on the shoulder are known from Mendip barrows (Taylor, 1933. PI. 4, I, 2). On 100 THE IRON AGE A DITCH AND POTTERY AT PAGANS' HILL I··;··-tt> l: :/ ;~ii .,._/ ..... :";~.:: (S:~· ,::.~.~ !\ ----- -- -----------r- ---- ---------)a>····~ ........~.. .~ :~ '--H-_ .. o 0 n-------------- - -1 -- __ - - - 0 - 0 - - --- "': " " , , .' '., , . ··.. ·. '-1'---'-- I~--- \" -_~ /: -- - .. ~'- 10 15 Fig. %J,-Sc. 1. Iron Age" A .. pottery from Pagans' Hill. THE IRON AGE A DITCH AND POTIERY AT PAGANS' HILL 101 the other hand, this finger-tip decorated ware may have been brought over by the original Iron Age A settlers.* Storage jars and cooking pots of shouldered or situlate form are not well represented, though this may be accidental. The rather softened profiles of those figured (29-31) seem to be characteristic of early Iron Age A groups in Wessex, in contrast to the very angular shapes of early pottery in Eastern England. The evidence points to the Pagans' Hill pottery belonging to a relatively very early phase of the Iron Age. It seems likely that the furrowed bowls of hrematite ware were brought to the site by the original scttlers from Wiltshire, rather than obtained by trade. The Iron Age A pottery from North Somerset may be divided into Early, Middle, and Late groups. Pagans' Hill stands at the head of the Early group. Sites in the Chew Valley which may belong to this group include BUrledge Camp, Phase It, whcrc the outer rampart may be of later date; Stanton Wick, which is known to have a small ditch and rampart ; and Chew Park Farm, an open farmstead site. Probably also belonging to this early group is a bowl in fine grey ware, like that of Pagans' Hill (10-17), from Gough's Old Cave, Cheddar (now the Society's museum). Some of the Iron Age A pottery from Hayes Wood, Freshford, cast of Bath (Stone and Wicks, 1936), is also said to resemble that from Pagans' Hill. The most important site of the Middle group is Solsbury Hill Camp, near Bath (Adams and Falconer, 1935; Dowden, 1957). The pottery here is clearly derived from that of All Cannings Cross, though from types current in the later stages of the occupation of the Wiltshire site. It seems probable that thesc types, which are well represented at Swa//owdiffe Down (Clay, 1925), and which include elaborately decorated, cordoned, hrernatite-coated bowls, and a series of flat-rimmed storage jars of more angular shape, as well as features such as pedestal bases, were introduced to Wessex by a fresh group of settlers. I am of the opinion that the occupation of Solsbury Hill may have begun about the time when that of All Cannings Cross was drawing towards its close. The pottery from Solsbury Hill is also important in that it may well be the source from which the .. linear decorated" ware of Bredon Hill (Hencken, 1938) is derived, though this derivation may not be direct. The hrematite ware bowl from Barrow 2, King's Weston Hill, Bristol (Tratman, 1926), probably belongs to an early phase of the Middle group. The Iron Age A pottery from the Brean Down Sand Cliff site presents some unusual features which might ally it to some of the Midland Iron Age A • For an alternative view, not necessarily applicable here, see Wheeler, t953, to.
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